#stylized patterns

[vintagefashionplates]

Bizarre silk

Bizarre silks are a style of figured silk fabrics popular in Europe in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Bizarre silks are characterized by large-scale, asymmetrical patterns featuring geometrical shapes and stylized leaves and flowers, influenced by a wave of Asian textiles and decorative objects reaching the European market in these decades.

Around 1707 and 1708, bizarre designs combined distorted florals with architectural elements such as arches, canopies, pergolas, and diagonal fences. From 1709–10, the scale of the patterns was reduced and elements of chinoiserie and japonaiserie appeared.

The aesthetic of chinoiserie has been expressed in different ways depending on the region. It is related to the broader current of Orientalism, which studied Far East cultures from a historical, philological, anthropological, philosophical, and religious point of view. First appearing in the 17th century, this trend was popularized in the 18th century.

[clumsypuppy]

xīn yá 🌱

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

Illustration of Daffodils from The Plant and its Ornamental Applications – Eugène Grasset and Emma Hervegh // Daffodil – Florence + the Machine

[stanford-photography]

Liberty Ashamed By Jeff Stanford, 2025

Buy prints at: https://jeff-stanford.pixels.com/

[ninacti0n]

Hello folks! I bring another site update!! I had to get this one out ASAP, because I didn't wanna leave holes in the webrings :'] I'm still waiting for the owner of the Funky Webring to update my url in it, so I can add the link back... but until then, this page shall do! Hope you folks enjoy it! I will be updating the pages with new buttons and links to things soon ^^ This shall do until I add more stuff.

[toxi-works-at-culvers]

them! @springlock-suits

[tainebot01]

Some sketchbook practice drawings from today, featuring These Beautiful Weirdos.

(Transcript of my incredibly smudged handwriting under the cut for reference)

Birdman (affectionate) - referring to Simon

Repeated halfmoon “feather” pattern - referring to a rough sketch pattern for Simon’s design

Focused, hawklike; repeat pattern under eye - referring to Simon’s eye

(Simon’s) profile also mimics pattern … I want him to look handsome in a bird way.

Simon’s (halfmoon pattern) / Athena’s (crescent moon pattern) -> “points in” vs. “points out” (to reflect him being more closed off, but still connected)

Pendant + hair kinda resemble base clef - referring to Klavier’s design

Apollo: wide eyed expressions, large eyebrows, round eyes, thin lashes

Klavier: thick eyelashes, soft expressions, slight squint? (I see this in some of his sprites)

Angular, “zigzag” shapes .

Thick eyelashes, thin eyebrows - referring to Klavier’s eye

I think he needs contacts? - comment referring to a squinting Klavier

Flowy, ribbonlike pattern + earrings - referring to Nayuta’s design

Long lashes, coloured pupils - referring to Nayuta’s eye

I like this sprite! - referring to Nayuta’s calm, closed eyed sprite, drawn here featuring a “peace.” Speech bubble

A couple of flyaway hairs to mirror “ribbon” shape - referring to Nayuta’s braided hair

“It’s… just a duck..?” - Nayuta talking to a smiling Simon, who is inexplicably holding a duck

[bandaidfingers]

Bryan Fury sketchbook doodle page featuring one (1) Lei Wulong (somebody’s gotta apprehend the big creep!)

process pics under cut

[mkstrigidae]

Sansa sketch WIP with some color tests (I don't care what GRRM wrote, I am forever and always a freckled Sansa truther)

[tanuki-kimono]

Do you know anything about this pattern? To me it looks like redbud leaves on a stream. They have those heart shaped leaves and little pink flower clusters. But there aren't redbuds in Japan, so what could it be?

Arf this pattern is tought to tell for sure. What is puzzling me the most is the placement of those pink flowers thingies.

I mostly see spades tbh and it's hard to unsee ^^;

Aoi 葵 (hollyhock) are usually stylized very differently. Houzuki 酸漿 (ground cherry) could be a candidate but the pink inner would then have been round.

Those large leaves could match some plants in the ipomea family, like the yuugao 夕顔 (bottle gourd), but same those are not usually depicted this way...

If anyone here in the hive mind has a better idea please do share!

[djevelbl]

gonna have to erase a decent bit of anatomy that unfortunately i have lowk become very very attached to bc it looks good. so here - screenshot. of what im currently working on

[tj-crochets]

Hey! This might be a weird ask, but do you know anywhere that has Cambrian sewing patterns? I’ve been trying to track down a wiwaxia or anomalocaris, but no joy. Thanks in advance!

Hey! Not a weird ask at all, and I swear I've seen one for an anomalocaris before but I can't remember where?? I'll take a look and see what I can find, and hopefully someone will see this that has a link to a pattern Edit: So good news bad news, I did find the anomalocaris plush I was thinking of, but the designer has not shared the pattern. Good news is it looks really simple to design a pattern for a simplified version of it? I'd just need to handstitch on the curved front...not legs and use the same technique I use to make spider legs without having to sew each leg individually (topstitching, but maybe also pleating) Can you reblog this with some reference photos of anomalocaris? anomalocarises? I do not know enough about them to be able to distinguish which ones are good references

[darabeatha]

I just think his final ascension slaps SO hard

[surfacebeauty]

fish 9-15

free to use

[amanrafromveranda]

just tried to stylize

[stanford-photography]

Roses for Mother By Jeff Stanford, 2024 Buy prints at: https://jeff-stanford.pixels.com/